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On 5/18/2010 10:16 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: > Jonathan Katz, a Washington University physics professor, was > appointed to Obama's oil spill investigation team. He really knows > how to pick 'em. > according to this site, Katz has already been dismissed: http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6006/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1801 the real question is why did Nobel Laureate Chu pick such a team to address the spill: http://www.energy.gov/8980.htm ==> Dr. Tom Hunter, Director of the Department of Energy's Sandia National Labs Hunter is a weapons specialist and the outgoing head of Sandia Labs, so i guess Chu felt bad Hunter was out of a job???: http://www.sandia.gov/about/welcome/DrTomHunter.pdf ==> Dr. George A. Cooper, an expert in materials science and retired professor from UC Berkeley at least has petroleum experience and knowledge of drilling techniques: http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/faculty/faculty_bio.php?name=Cooper http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~cooper/research.html ==> Richard Lawrence Garwin, a physicist and IBM Fellow Emeritus Garwin i remember from the Star Wars days, a good physicist, but no specialist in fluid mechanics and oil, again a nuclear weapons man: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garwin ==> Dr. Jonathan I. Katz, professor of physics at Washington University seems to have some background in fluid flow, his smelly politics notwithstanding: http://wuphys.wustl.edu/~katz/ ==> Dr. Alexander H. Slocum, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT a mechanical engineer (i guess one of my younger classmates), but no particular specialty in fluids or petroleum: http://meche.mit.edu/people/?id=80 all in all an odd mix of characters to handle an oil spill. Cooper seems the most qualified of the bunch, followed at some distance by Katz .... Les ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
